ON A YOUNG GENTLEMAN'S DEATH...INSCRIPTION. Approach not, stranger, with unhallow'd feet, 307 Blest mansion then, simplicity's abode, Nor think, gay revellers, this awful roof lov'd. There one, distinguish'd one-not sweeter blows Thus a short hour-and woods and turrets fall; The good, the great, the beauteous, perish all. Less awful groves, and gaudier villas rise, bowers, What half remains of Wolsey's ancient pride! Like him, the lisping infant's blessing shares, ' Combe-Neville, near Kingston, built by the king-making earl of Warwick. The new apartments at Hampton Court, raised on the ruins of part of Wolsey's palace. THE LIFE OF WALTER HARTE, BY MR. CHALMERS. THE following desultory information, perhaps improperly called a life, is derived principally from the notes on Mr. Nicholls's collection of poems, augmented by various notices in the Gentleman's Magazine, the author's works, and the writings of his contemporaries. His learning and personal worth, neither of which have ever been called in question, would have procured him a more particular narra tive, if it had been possible to recover the requisite materials. His father the rev. Walter Harte was fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford, prebendary of Wales, canon of Bristol, and vicar of St. Mary Magdalen, Taunton, Somersetshire. Refusing to take the oaths after that revolution which placed a new family on the throne, he relinquished all his preferments, in 1691, and retired to Kentbury in Buckinghamshire, where he died February 10, 1736, aged eighty-five. His son informs us, that when judge Jefferies came to Taunton assizes in the year 1685, to execute his commission upon the unfortunate persons concerned in Monmouth's rebellion, Mr. Harte, then minister of St. Mary Magdalen's, waited on him in private, and remonstrated much against his severities. The judge listened to him calmly, and with some attention, and, though he had never seen him before, advanced him in a few months to a prebendal stall in the cathedral church of Bristol. "I thought," says Dr. Warton, who has introduced this story in his notes on Pope," the reader might not dislike to hear this anecdote of Jefferies, the only one action of his life that I believe does him any credit." Old Mr. Harte was so much respected for his piety and learning, that the prelates Kidder, Hooper, and Wynne, who successively filled the see of Bath and Wells, contrived that he should receive the profits of his prebend of Wells as long as he lived and Mr. Simon Harco urt, afterwa the celebrated lord chancellor, |